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No matter who it is, but Ben Sherrington signs, or for that matter doesn't sign, the defining

facet of the 2026 season for this club will be the improvement or not the existing hitters.

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Thursday morning, I'm Dan Kovach of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Pirates.

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Matt Higgs, first season as hitting coach, probably

couldn't have gone much worse than it did. And while I'm a proponent of giving any hitting

or pitching coach more than a year to install and get buy-in from the program that they have, I mean, I'm going to say it again,

it could not have bottomed out more than it did, not just because the pirates finished at the bottom of

almost every offensive category spanning Major League Baseball,

but also because, and maybe even more disturbingly,

the individual hitters that they did have or thought they had regressed.

Not one of them, not two of them, not a bunch of them, all of them.

Across the everything, just no exceptions.

Heck, the guy who's probably been the most reliable hitter this team's had over the past decade.

The one guy who was money in the bank was Brian Reynolds, not a superstar,

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